The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2069 - The Pope MOGS Modernity And Liberalism In France

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00:01:54.760 abortion, assisted suicide, and the French Revolution. The Pope also said mass in front

00:02:00.480 of nearly a million people. I guess Catholicism is not totally dead over there in France. Then

00:02:05.540 back to the States, 50,000 people flocked to Missouri to attend mass and venerate the jawbone

00:02:11.360 of a bishop. People clearly, at the very least, have a lot of questions about the Catholic faith.

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00:02:52.820 welcome back to the show and stop wherever you are whatever you're doing have you seen run hide 1.00

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00:03:43.400 news. Before we get into all the bad political news, there is some really good stuff. France,

00:03:47.320 speaking of jihadis, France has had some troubles over the last 250 years. France,

00:03:54.860 the eldest daughter to the church, also the site of one of the worst events in the history of the

00:03:59.200 world, the French Revolution. France, which is just always gumming everything up, spreading 0.96

00:04:04.620 secularism, inviting all of the Muslims to come and take over the country. It's just, it's France. 1.00

00:04:11.680 I mean, we don't even, we renamed French fries. That's how irritating the French became. 1.00

00:04:16.180 And yet, even in that decadent, liberal, secular, riot-filled, increasingly Islamic France, the Pope shows up, and everybody is filled with awe and wonder. 1.00

00:04:31.240 The Pope shows up, he holds an open-air mass on the Champs-Élysées. 1.00

00:04:36.520 Upwards of a million people showed up.

00:04:38.000 I think it was like 700,000, maybe more people just lining the streets of France.

00:04:42.520 And I know a lot of people are worried because they think that recent pontificates have been kind of liberal.

00:04:47.260 They say, oh, no, the pope is going to go there, and he's just going to talk about how we need to welcome even more Muslim immigrants.

00:04:52.020 And we need to have even more liberal policies.

00:04:54.980 And that's not what happened.

00:04:56.960 The pope, I'll just get through a few highlights of this brief official visit to France.

00:05:01.160 The pope takes square aim at an increasing scourge, a particularly left-wing policy taking over the West.

00:05:08.160 That is assisted suicide.

00:05:10.060 I know that for some of you, because of particular illness, at times terrible pain, your horizon

00:05:25.980 may appear dark, uncertain and without hope. But no human law should ever make you lose

00:05:34.560 the certainty of your dignity.

00:05:37.940 On the contrary, it is precisely in the name

00:05:40.280 of this inalienable dignity of the human person

00:05:43.460 that we must reject the temptation

00:05:46.160 to cause death under the guise of false compassion.

00:05:52.120 It is impossible to regard causing death

00:05:55.160 as something normal.

00:05:57.720 What is legal is not necessarily moral.

00:06:02.120 Beautiful.

00:06:02.820 He goes on, those are just the highlights.

00:06:04.560 He's talking about assisted suicide, which now kills 5% of the Canadians who die every

00:06:11.320 single year in America's Evil Top Hat, which has been legalized throughout Europe and which

00:06:16.260 has led to that story we talked about even, what was it, four days ago, five days ago?

00:06:23.160 Medical assistance in dying, euthanasia against the patient's will.

00:06:28.320 Euthanasia against the patient's will is called murder. 0.72

00:06:30.800 You hear these stories out of Amsterdam, out of Belgium, of elderly people, mentally handicapped

00:06:36.440 people, poor people, depressed people who are being killed.

00:06:39.940 They're being killed by the state because the state doesn't want to pay for their medical

00:06:42.320 care.

00:06:43.320 We're told that the left, all they want to do is offer us free health care.

00:06:46.340 The free health care is a lethal injection.

00:06:49.280 And the Pope shows up, and the Pope, who has this little bit of a reputation as kind of

00:06:52.940 a liberal, he shows up to France, this seat of European liberalism, and he goes up and

00:06:57.700 he says, enough is enough.

00:06:59.240 This is always immoral, always unacceptable. The intentional killing should never be considered a

00:07:05.980 normal thing. In certain cases, it might be justified, like in the case of a just war,

00:07:10.320 in the case of self-defense, in the case of double effect. But this should never be considered

00:07:15.260 normal. And by the way, just because something is legal according to the civil law does not mean

00:07:20.120 that it's moral. So he's taking aim at this positivist vision of law that says that if

00:07:24.720 legislators put their name on a piece of paper that somehow something becomes licit in the true

00:07:30.120 sense. Beautiful, profoundly conservative, deeply Christian, very, very important. He's completely

00:07:35.840 right when it comes to assisted suicide. He then, on the Champs-Élysées, he decides to hold mass.

00:07:43.160 And who does he choose to serve at mass? In the Catholic mass, we have altar servers.

00:07:47.720 he chooses six people with down syndrome and why does he choose the people with down syndrome one

00:07:55.560 to affirm the dignity of every human being including people with mental disabilities

00:07:58.880 but two because not only is he taking aim at assisted suicide killing the elderly mostly

00:08:03.620 along with the mentally handicapped and the desperate but he's also taking aim at abortion

00:08:09.680 because in france 96 percent of of people who have down syndrome are murdered in the womb

00:08:15.240 by the people, by their mothers

00:08:17.400 with the sanction of the state.

00:08:19.760 And so what does he do?

00:08:21.100 The Pope shows up to France

00:08:22.300 and he says, I'm choosing the survivors,

00:08:25.240 the people who survived being murdered

00:08:26.860 with Down syndrome.

00:08:27.960 I'm going to choose them to serve

00:08:29.880 at the holy sacrifice of the mass.

00:08:31.380 The most important thing we Catholics believe

00:08:33.900 in the entire world,

00:08:35.280 in the very presence of God himself,

00:08:37.900 body, blood, soul, and divinity

00:08:39.220 in the blessed sacrament.

00:08:41.480 Beautiful, beautiful statement from the Pope.

00:08:43.920 then what you'd expect in modern France you know if if you were to show up and do some kind of 0.87

00:08:50.400 mosque service if you were going to play that you know call to prayer you'd expect that would fill

00:08:55.200 the Champs Elysees but no no this was mass and all the people show up almost a million people

00:09:02.560 as far as the eye can see if the Champs Elysees were longer there would have been more people

00:09:06.260 then also on the Champs Elysees you have priests not the pope but priests just showing up sitting

00:09:12.320 on little blocks and chairs, hearing confessions, and all these people coming up and giving their

00:09:18.620 confessions. Who knows? Some of these people might not have been to confession in months or years or

00:09:23.720 decades for that matter, going up, hearing their confessions, which comes from the gospel when

00:09:27.960 Christ says, I give you the Holy Spirit. You have the power to forgive sins, whose sins you forgive

00:09:33.060 are forgiven, whose sins you retain are retained. This is where the sacrament of confession comes

00:09:38.500 from. And the priests are just doling out God's grace and God's mercy. In France, you never

00:09:44.920 thought, you didn't think this was possible to happen maybe anywhere in the world today,

00:09:48.200 but especially not in France. And then the cherry on top, cherry on top of the sundae,

00:09:53.360 the priest shows up and he prays at a staircase that commemorates the clergy, the religious,

00:10:00.580 martyred by the French Revolution. So this guy, the chutzpah, to show up to France to say,

00:10:06.380 your policies are evil. They're completely immoral. I don't care if your legislature passes 0.57

00:10:10.200 them. They're completely evil and immoral on abortion, on assisted suicide, not just France, 0.63

00:10:14.980 but all of Europe. By the way, your revolution was evil too, which it was. The French revolution

00:10:20.140 was one of the most evil acts ever in the history of the world. So he goes and he prays at the 0.99

00:10:24.140 staircase for the martyrs of the French revolutionaries, those who were martyred by

00:10:29.340 the French revolutionaries, I should say. And the open air mass took place at the Place de la

00:10:33.700 Concorde, which was the site of the executions by guillotine in the French Revolution, when the

00:10:40.100 Catholic monarchs, the king and the queen, were executed by the liberal revolutionaries.

00:10:46.520 Okay, what do we take from this? Even if you're not Catholic, what do we take from this?

00:10:50.480 I can't help but notice that all of these empires have tried to destroy the church.

00:10:55.280 The French Revolution was fought to destroy the church in no small part.

00:10:58.900 The Ancien Régime, which was taking aim at the monarchy, but also at the church.

00:11:03.140 The people who sat on the right of the National Assembly were the defenders of the monarch and the church.

00:11:07.960 The people who sat on the left of the National Assembly, it's where we get political right and left from,

00:11:11.580 they were the ones who took aim at the monarchy and the church.

00:11:14.780 And after that revolution, almost 250 years later, the revolutionary governments fell and fell and fell.

00:11:23.920 How many republics have we had in France thus far?

00:11:26.700 But the church remains firm.

00:11:27.900 How about the other empires that tried to destroy the church, the Soviet Union and all of the Soviet Union satellites?

00:11:32.900 throughout the 20th century. They tried to destroy not just orthodoxy in Russia,

00:11:38.640 but also the Catholic church. And guess what? They failed. The Nazis tried to destroy the

00:11:42.440 Catholic church. They failed. Half a dozen Islamic caliphates over history tried to destroy

00:11:47.680 the Catholic church. They failed. Revolutionary France, as I mentioned twice, really took aim at

00:11:53.480 the church the first time around and in the third republic. All the descendants of all the liberal 0.51

00:11:58.580 polities that came about because of the French Revolution. Let's go back a little further.

00:12:02.820 The Roman Empire tried to destroy the Catholic Church. Guess what? The Catholic Church remains.

00:12:07.220 The Roman Empire is long gone. Spanish Republicans, we call them the Republicans. 1.00

00:12:12.500 They were the communists in Spain that happily Francisco Franco defeated. Those Spanish 1.00

00:12:17.220 Republicans were murdering priests, raping nuns, doing all manner of evil, trying to stamp out 1.00

00:12:22.020 Catholicism. Guess what? They got stamped out instead. Several English monarchs, Oliver Cromwell, 1.00

00:12:28.580 The Mexican revolutionaries, the Italian nationalists, on and on and on and on and on.

00:12:33.160 How many political powers have said, it's over, the church has done the age of mystery and mysticism and superstition.

00:12:40.940 They call it, that's over, and now we have this enlightened form of government.

00:12:45.160 And guess what?

00:12:45.660 They all met the dust, and the church remains.

00:12:51.020 It's really inspiring stuff.

00:12:52.620 There's a lot of bad politics going on right now, and yet you look at that and you say,

00:12:56.380 goodness gracious, maybe God actually does have a hand in history. Maybe he actually controls

00:13:01.500 history. Maybe it's all going to end up all right, despite a lot of trouble in the meantime. Okay.

00:13:05.560 A lot of people have questions. I mean, because Catholicism is really on the rise in France.

00:13:10.320 Baptisms are way, way up year over year. 35 plus percent increases in baptisms year over year.

00:13:17.240 We're seeing this happen in the United States too, but especially in France. And so in the US,

00:13:21.600 Catholicism also was dominating the headlines last week because of the beatification of Fulton

00:13:26.560 Sheen. I mentioned him at the very end of one of the shows last week, but it's created a lot of

00:13:31.480 chatter on the internet because of one of these kind of weird things that Catholics do and other 0.94

00:13:35.980 more traditional flavors of Christianity. But Catholics are really known for it, which is we

00:13:40.580 have relics. So Fulton Sheen was his bishop. He had a TV show, Life is Worth Living. Big,

00:13:45.860 big hit TV show. He was the first televangelist. He died many decades ago, and now he's been

00:13:51.720 beatified. So that's another step on the way to being canonized a saint. And as part of the

00:13:56.060 beatification and the mass and the ceremony, the church showed his jawbone. They took his jawbone

00:14:03.980 from this dead archbishop, and they put it in a reliquary, and people venerated this relic.

00:14:09.640 And a lot of minor people say, this is freaky, man. It's weird. Some are accusing it of being

00:14:14.220 idolatry or pagan or something. But others are at least saying it's kind of weird. But everybody's

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00:15:44.220 American meat delivered. People are really weirded out. I'm not, but some people are really weirded

00:15:49.720 out by the fact that at Archbishop TV star Fulton Sheen's beatification, his jawbone,

00:15:57.700 like his lower jaw, was put on display and venerated as a holy relic. And that kind of

00:16:01.840 makes sense for a guy who was best known for broadcasting and evangelizing and speaking and

00:16:06.640 preaching that his jawbone would be the major relic that is put up for veneration. But a lot

00:16:11.820 of people think it's really weird. They say it's a modern innovation. It's a tradition of men

00:16:15.060 invented by the Catholics in the Middle Ages or modernity, and it's freaky, and it's pagan, 0.99

00:16:19.720 it's whatever. I won't get into the whole story of it, but there's really a political point to 0.99

00:16:24.900 pull out here, even beyond the religious aspect. Where do we get the idea of relics from? Well,

00:16:31.020 we get the idea of relics from the Old Testament, the bones of Elisha, which heals someone when he

00:16:37.020 touches the bones. We get it from the New Testament, where people are touching Christ's

00:16:42.180 garment and they receive a kind of power, where people are touching cloth to St. Paul and sending

00:16:48.520 that out because they believed that the physical carries some kind of importance, some kind of

00:16:54.640 significance, even for our faith. Don't forget, Christianity, unlike the pagan religions,

00:16:59.400 unlike a lot of modern spirituality, Christianity is incarnate. One of the main things that

00:17:07.220 distinguishes Christianity from all the other religions is we believe that the physical really

00:17:11.360 matters. The central fact of our religion is the incarnation when God takes on flesh and dwells

00:17:17.240 among us and is really crucified. The Muslims deny that Christ was crucified. They say in the

00:17:22.720 Quran, they crucified him not. Then Christ is bodily resurrected. Judaism says that Christ

00:17:29.280 was not bodily resurrected. It's interesting that the two errors around Christianity that you get

00:17:34.980 from Islam and from Judaism are both different aspects of the passion and the resurrection,

00:17:40.220 one denying the crucifixion, one denying the resurrection, but they both have to do with

00:17:43.260 the body. They say, no, it cannot be the case that God has a body and that he died and then

00:17:49.080 the body was resurrected. It's just not possible. And yet that is the central fact, the central

00:17:53.520 claim of Christianity is that God shares in our human nature, that he comes to save us by taking

00:17:59.700 on our human nature, like us in all ways except for sin. And so the body really, really matters.

00:18:05.840 And for people who are freaked out by relics and stuff, I'm very relic-filled. I'm very pro-relic.

00:18:10.020 But for those who are a little freaked out by it, you have to ask yourself, where does this come

00:18:14.180 from? Does it come from some weird superstition in the Middle Ages? Does it come from a pagan

00:18:17.820 practice? No. One of the earliest examples that we have available to us comes from the martyrdom

00:18:25.080 of Polycarp. Polycarp was a disciple of John the Apostle, of St. John. Polycarp is martyred in

00:18:33.000 about 155 AD. And we have the text, the martyrdom of Polycarp, that was written shortly thereafter.

00:18:39.760 Here's what the martyrdom of Polycarp says the earliest Christians, some of the very earliest

00:18:44.220 Christians did after Polycarp was martyred. It says, the centurion then, seeing the strife

00:18:50.220 excited by the Jews, placed the body in the midst of the fire and consumed it. So the pagans 0.91

00:18:55.060 cremate Polycarp. We'll get to cremation in a second, because that also created some controversy.

00:18:59.860 But the pagans cremate Polycarp, and so all that's left is his bones. And we are told from the second

00:19:05.660 century, earliest Christian communities, accordingly, we Christians afterwards took up

00:19:11.740 his bones as being more precious than the most exquisite jewels and more purified than gold

00:19:16.000 and deposited them in a fitting place wither being gathered as opportunity has allowed us

00:19:20.380 with joy and rejoicing the Lord shall grant us to celebrate the anniversary of his martyrdom

00:19:26.500 both in memory of those who have already finished their course and for the exercising and preparation

00:19:31.580 of those yet to walk in their steps. So one of the earliest Christian texts that we possess

00:19:37.760 regarding one of the most important early Christian figures who was a disciple to John

00:19:43.960 the Apostle himself, describes the veneration of relics. And this confounds us because a lot of

00:19:51.040 what passes for modern Christianity says this is wrong, that this is somehow idolatry, that this

00:19:55.980 is weird, that it's pagan, that it's superstitious. And yet, the earliest Christians said exactly the 0.70

00:20:01.940 opposite. Said, no, no, no, there's nothing wrong with this at all. In fact, this is what we do to 0.97

00:20:06.360 one of the very earliest martyrs. We gather up his bones as being more precious than jewels,

00:20:12.200 and we have celebrations around them. Not worship. We don't make idols out of them.

00:20:17.780 We don't believe that the bones have some kind of intrinsic power in them, but we recognize that

00:20:24.020 there is a significance to this physical relic, this physical remain of someone in whom we know

00:20:31.780 very seriously dwelt the Holy Spirit, very manifestly dwelt the Holy Spirit.

00:20:36.360 and we know that he's part of the body of Christ, and so we venerate that.

00:20:39.720 And so I guess my takeaway from this is both at the religious level and at the political level. 0.80

00:20:46.980 I don't think that I understand Christianity better than Polycarp did. 0.98

00:20:51.740 I guess that's it. 1.00

00:20:52.480 Even when the early Christians, they did some weird stuff. 0.97

00:20:54.560 You know, they did some stuff that's like kind of weird and confounds modern sensibilities. 0.76

00:20:58.200 But I don't claim to believe, as a lot of progressives do in politics,

00:21:03.180 as a lot of modernists do in religion.

00:21:06.660 I don't claim to be the wiser, smarter,

00:21:11.280 purer, more orthodox Christian

00:21:13.300 than the people who learned from the apostles directly.

00:21:17.920 This is at the religious level.

00:21:19.380 You have these people that sometimes say,

00:21:20.940 well, yes, but those early Christians, 1.00

00:21:22.320 they were kind of too stupid 1.00

00:21:23.520 and influenced by paganism and confused. 1.00

00:21:25.700 And so it was only we enlightened people

00:21:27.420 in the 19th century,

00:21:28.340 we discovered the true form of Christianity.

00:21:30.800 I don't buy that.

00:21:31.740 forget about the particular religious claims. I just, that's like the wrong epistemology. I just

00:21:37.160 don't think that's how we come to know things. Same thing goes for politics. You hear this all

00:21:42.220 the time from the libs, especially on the left, but a little bit on the right too. They'll say,

00:21:45.600 well, the founding fathers and the framers, they were a bunch of hypocrites and they were kind of 1.00

00:21:50.240 stupid. And they stumbled onto a basically good idea that all men are created equal and were 1.00

00:21:55.960 endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, but they didn't really know what it meant.

00:21:59.040 They were a bunch of dummies, and it took us, 250 years later, in our enlightened form of progressive liberalism, it took us to really understand what they meant.

00:22:10.820 That's the same thing. 0.95

00:22:11.640 It's just a form of progressivism, a form of modernism applied alternately to politics and religion.

00:22:17.680 I just don't buy it.

00:22:19.560 On the point of cremation, I got in trouble yesterday.

00:22:21.540 Then we'll move on from religion because there's some really – I want to stick on religion for a while because there's really brutal political news, but we have to get to it.

00:22:27.460 But in any case, I mentioned with regard to some of this conversation about relics and all the rest, the importance of the body.

00:22:33.640 I made this point yesterday on Twitter that went really, really viral.

00:22:38.940 And it was someone asking why the church historically has opposed cremation.

00:22:45.100 And now, as the influence of the church in our political order has waned, cremation is more popular.

00:22:51.200 And I said, well, the reason is cremation mocks the resurrection of the body.

00:22:55.340 We Christians believe in the resurrection of the body.

00:22:57.460 not just the resurrection of the spirit, not just the resurrection of the soul,

00:23:00.220 but the resurrection of the body, that we're going to have glorified bodies someday.

00:23:04.480 And cremation mocks that idea by burning the body and turning it to ash.

00:23:10.680 Whereas burial or entombment or something, your body is still going to decay,

00:23:16.020 but it shows a greater kind of reverence for the body.

00:23:19.440 And on this point of cremation versus relics, relics, the veneration of relics,

00:23:24.260 calls attention to the resurrection of the body.

00:23:26.200 calls attention to the importance of the physical, even in the eschaton, even in the new heaven and

00:23:31.340 the new earth. That was the point. And a lot of people got really upset. They said, Michael,

00:23:35.740 the church permits cremation. And that's true. Since 1963, the Catholic church has permitted

00:23:40.760 cremation. But from the year AD 33 until 1963, the church did not. Except in the rarest of cases,

00:23:51.100 You know, someone dies in a fire or someone dies in war and it's difficult to recover the remains.

00:23:56.560 But as a general rule, cremation was not permitted.

00:24:00.560 And so it's permitted now.

00:24:02.260 But to me, that is one of the aspects of modernity. 0.90

00:24:06.320 The fact that in modernity, we have returned not to Christendom, but to paganism.

00:24:11.820 And so much of what the Renaissance was about and the modern era was about was a rejection of the dark ages of Christianity and scholasticism.

00:24:19.200 and a return to the supposedly brilliant ideas of paganism.

00:24:22.320 And along with that came different pagan practices, including cremation,

00:24:25.420 which you see here in the martyrdom of Polycarp.

00:24:28.360 It wasn't the early Christians who cremated Polycarp.

00:24:30.980 It was the Romans. 0.76

00:24:31.800 It was the centurions who cremated Polycarp. 1.00

00:24:35.900 It's the pagan religions of the East. 0.73

00:24:38.840 They tend to engage in cremation a lot more. 0.96

00:24:42.620 You see this on the banks of the Ganges or whatever. 0.96

00:24:45.580 That's not the Christian idea.

00:24:47.960 And so then anyway, people were all sort of fighting about all of this.

00:24:51.740 And this once again gets to a political takeaway, but it applies to religion and culture and

00:24:57.120 all manner of, all fields of knowledge, which is, do you think you're smarter than Polycarp?

00:25:05.780 Forget about smarter. Do you think that you understand the things that Polycarp especially

00:25:11.980 understood better than Polycarp did. Do you think that we in modernity, that we've just

00:25:17.880 discovered that the church was totally wrong about something for the first 1,963 years of

00:25:22.780 its existence, and that we figured it out? Because if you believe that, if you think

00:25:28.180 that just everyone who came before us was totally wrong, just profoundly wrong, and we figured

00:25:33.860 everything out, that is a mark of liberalism and progressivism in everything, applied to religion,

00:25:40.340 applied to family dynamics, applied to the political order, applied to immigration,

00:25:46.360 applied to economics, applied to whatever. That's it. And so I would just encourage people

00:25:50.660 who are really freaked out by things that are very ancient and very traditional, that is not

00:25:56.380 only ancient, but that have endured for a very long time. If you're really freaked out by that,

00:26:00.480 there are two dispositions you can have. You can either respond to that by saying, man,

00:26:05.660 they were nuts. I'm glad that we live in the modern times where we're not so dumb anymore. 1.00

00:26:08.480 or you can ask yourself okay why did they do that is it possible that they understood something that

00:26:15.600 we do not i think i mean bringing it just full circle the fact that we get back to the pope's

00:26:20.860 visit to france and all these modern ideologies after 2 000 years all these different religions

00:26:26.140 and schisms and empires and the fact that they've all fallen and the ancient faith

00:26:34.500 Draws almost a million people to the Champs-Élysées

00:26:36.480 doing all the old things,

00:26:38.320 talking about all the old issues

00:26:39.780 with all the old doctrine.

00:26:41.760 That is a great consolation for conservatives.

00:26:45.680 Now, a bad thing for conservatives

00:26:47.520 is that right now the polls show

00:26:49.320 we are going to get absolutely obliterated

00:26:51.820 in the midterms.

00:26:52.600 I think there's a few things we could do

00:26:54.160 to turn it around.

00:26:54.920 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:29:19.400 real solutions for real people. Before we get to the bad news, I'm doing everything I can to delay

00:29:25.340 the bad political news in South Carolina, in the other races. But before we get to that,

00:29:30.880 I just have one. For anyone who I haven't driven crazy with my opinions on euthanasia or abortion

00:29:37.340 or relics or cremation or the church or whatever, I'm now going to drive everybody crazy. Probably

00:29:42.120 my most controversial opinion maybe I've ever expressed on this show, but I have to make it

00:29:48.500 because I think the whole culture is wrong about this.

00:29:52.060 It's about baseball.

00:29:53.560 Yesterday, Justin Verlander pitched his last game.

00:29:57.900 A legendary pitcher, 21-year career,

00:30:01.320 multiple Cy Young Awards.

00:30:03.020 You know, he's really, he's one of the greats.

00:30:04.220 He's one of the great pitchers.

00:30:05.520 And it was the end of his career,

00:30:07.000 and he pitches his last pitch.

00:30:09.660 And then this happened.

00:30:14.200 He's out there.

00:30:15.160 Okay, that was it.

00:30:16.480 That was my last pitch.

00:30:17.640 He looks off. He looks off to the dugout. What happens? His daughter comes running onto the

00:30:23.700 field. Look at the, oh, isn't that sweet? And he starts crying. Shoulders shaking. He starts crying. 1.00

00:30:30.280 You see the pitcher comes up, you know, a bunch of the guys from the team coming over. He's hugging

00:30:34.700 his daughter. It's bad for him, right? He's crying. This is it. The end of 21 years. One of the great

00:30:40.840 baseball careers. Wow. Okay. All right. Tears in his eyes. Little girl, cute little girl hugging

00:30:48.700 her dad. Oh, yeah. Hugging the manager, hugging everybody, hugging the coaches. Okay, great.

00:30:53.980 All right. Okay, you get it. He's crying. Oh, yeah. All right. He's trying to get his act

00:30:58.460 together. Then he walks off the field, tips his cap, goes into the dugout. Everybody loved this.

00:31:03.520 Everybody loved this. This was so sweet. I did not love this. I didn't. I didn't love this.

00:31:11.260 I'm judging by the responses to my opining on it.

00:31:14.720 I'm the only person in the United States who actually didn't like this display.

00:31:19.420 But here's why.

00:31:21.220 Here's why.

00:31:22.800 To quote John Updike, gods do not answer letters.

00:31:29.200 That's what John Updike wrote when Ted Williams retired.

00:31:33.780 Ted Williams, one of the all-time great baseball players ever.

00:31:37.200 He hits a home run for his last plate appearance.

00:31:40.440 That's it.

00:31:41.020 His career is one of the greatest players ever.

00:31:43.200 Hits a home run for his last play.

00:31:44.300 The crowd is going crazy.

00:31:46.620 They want a speech.

00:31:47.560 They want something.

00:31:48.540 They want whatever.

00:31:49.780 He runs the bases, goes into the dugout.

00:31:51.500 They say, well, at least come on out of the dugout.

00:31:53.360 Tip your hat to us, right?

00:31:55.600 He won't do it.

00:31:57.700 Ted Williams, forget about he didn't cry.

00:31:59.440 He didn't have his daughter run up on the field.

00:32:01.000 He didn't do this.

00:32:01.700 He didn't do that.

00:32:03.240 He didn't.

00:32:04.100 He wouldn't even tip the cap.

00:32:05.360 No, he's just a man doing his job.

00:32:07.280 Just like you do your job.

00:32:09.120 Just like everybody else.

00:32:10.140 he goes he does his job he does a good job and the reward is the work itself baseball is the last

00:32:17.140 sport that does that all the other sports have this third world nonsense where everybody starts

00:32:24.340 doing crazy dances in the end zone and wearing a bunch of bling and behaving like emotionally

00:32:30.660 incontinent toddlers and baseball was the last sport where they keep they just kind of keep it

00:32:38.280 together. You hit the grand slam until recently. Now, even my beloved New York Yankees are doing

00:32:42.740 this where they're getting a little too frivolous, a little too self-indulgent. They're making weird

00:32:48.220 hand gestures. Jazz Chisholm, who's a very talented ballplayer, but he's like dancing

00:32:51.840 all over the bag. I don't want to see that. I want to see Nolan Ryan. He pitches out at a batter.

00:32:58.740 A batter comes running up to him as he's going to charge them out. Nolan Ryan puts him in a headlock,

00:33:02.200 punches him in the head six times. The batter gets thrown out of the game. Nolan Ryan just

00:33:07.660 gets back up on the mound like nothing happened. I want to see Lou Gehrig. Lou Gehrig, who one of

00:33:13.640 the greatest baseball players ever would have had an amazingly even longer career, but he gets

00:33:19.120 struck down by one of the most torture-inducing painful illnesses ever. So horrific. They named

00:33:25.240 the disease after him, Lou Gehrig disease. What does he do? Does he get up to the microphone?

00:33:28.460 He says, today I consider myself just really emotional. No, he gets up there. He says,

00:33:34.760 today I consider myself one of the luckiest guys in the face of the earth. Okay. All right. Bye.

00:33:38.640 Thanks. Thanks, everybody. I'm real lucky. That's it. I'm reminded of Tony Soprano talking to his

00:33:45.300 therapist. Let me tell you something. Nowadays, everybody's got to go to shrinks and counselors

00:33:52.260 and go on Sally, Jesse, Raphael and talk about their problems. Whatever happened to Gary Cooper,

00:33:58.680 the strong silent type that was an american he wasn't in touch with his feelings he just did

00:34:05.300 what he had to do so what they didn't know was once they got gary cooper in touch with his feelings

00:34:10.020 that they wouldn't be able to shut him up and then it's dysfunction this and dysfunction that

00:34:14.040 dysfunction my fungo dysfunction this and dysfunction that he's totally right he's

00:34:19.500 tony is totally right about this and do you know it's not it's not just that tony's being a

00:34:24.900 contrarian. It's not even just machismo, you know, look, I'm a man would never cry. It's deeper than

00:34:30.780 that. The key here is that the emotion can be more beautifully conveyed with restraint.

00:34:44.520 Think about the great poems. Are the great poems the free verse, weird slam poetry?

00:34:51.660 yeah and then my dad said pop and i had to go hop hop hop and i cried and i'm gay and i'm this and

00:35:00.740 i'm that you know it's like every slam slam poetry performance no the great poems are restricted

00:35:07.120 they're limited by meter and verse generally speaking the great baseball players these great

00:35:13.300 moments the poignancy of lou gehrig saying yeah i'm about to die in torture and and the one of

00:35:19.780 greatest baseball careers is going to be cut short because of the disease eating away my insides

00:35:23.920 and entrapping me in my own body. But, you know, I'm a lucky guy. Okay, thanks, everybody.

00:35:29.300 The great Ted Williams just, yeah, I did my job. No, I'm not even going to tip my cap. Sorry,

00:35:33.940 thank you. Bye. There is so much more vitality. There is so much more meaning. It chokes you up

00:35:44.900 more, almost as the audience, when the performer does not allow himself to get carried away with

00:35:51.820 the emotion. So again, I don't mean to be too tough on Verlander. It was nice. It was very

00:35:56.260 sweet. It's nice. You know, I'm a father of four kids. It's very, it's lovely to see,

00:36:00.120 but I don't want to see that. I don't want to see, I especially don't want to see that from

00:36:03.120 baseball. One of the last redoubts of emotional restraint and continence in this entire freaking

00:36:08.520 country. As we become incontinent, as we become a country that no longer has the strong silent 0.85

00:36:15.660 types, we're not going to just get in touch with our feelings and live in a sort of happy age of

00:36:23.440 Aquarius. We're going to be a country of whiners, and we're going to be a country of complainers.

00:36:31.260 We're going to be a country of people that can't interact together. And more serious countries

00:36:34.380 is going to take us over. Congratulations to Justin Verlander. Okay. Okay. All right. Speaking

00:36:39.920 of retirement, Darlene Graham, the Republican Senator in South Carolina, not looking good for 0.97

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00:39:06.220 real solutions for real people. My favorite comment yesterday is from Tornado Acron,

00:39:13.520 who says, as a woman, the idea of running the whole world for even three months terrifies me. 0.90

00:39:19.780 I was referring to Obama, who says the whole world should be run by women for two years. 1.00

00:39:22.740 Everything would get better. 0.99

00:39:24.260 Says Obama, yes, is clearly lying, but also clearly has no idea what women are actually 0.98

00:39:28.940 like with each other. 1.00

00:39:29.980 So true.

00:39:30.580 Preach, sister.

00:39:31.600 Preach. 1.00

00:39:32.020 You go, girl. 1.00

00:39:34.040 Believe all women.

00:39:35.100 Believe that woman.

00:39:36.040 Believe that woman out there.

00:39:37.460 Do not believe Barack Obama about anything.

00:39:41.580 The midterms are looking rough, and they're especially looking rough.

00:39:45.080 Well, no, they're looking rough everywhere. 1.00

00:39:47.380 I guess we can see, especially clearly, how rough they're looking because of the South Carolina race. 0.99

00:39:53.940 Darlene Graham, the late Lindsey Graham's sister, was appointed to fill out the rest of his term. 1.00

00:40:00.180 This is not uncommon.

00:40:01.760 Sometimes when a senator dies in office, his wife is appointed to fill out the rest of the term.

00:40:07.740 Lindsey Graham was not married.

00:40:09.180 The person he was closest to was his sister, Darlene, whom he helped raise.

00:40:12.320 And so Darlene was appointed to fill out the rest of his term.

00:40:14.700 I think that was a nice thing to do.

00:40:15.880 perfectly reasonable, good move from Trump. Then she decides she's going to run for re-election. 1.00

00:40:22.280 So not just to fill out Lindsey Graham's term, she's going to run for her own term. 0.99

00:40:26.660 That was a little more controversial. You had some other decent candidates who were going to 1.00

00:40:30.300 throw their hat in the ring, but whatever. She wins the primary. Now she's looking rough. 1.00

00:40:37.140 There's a new poll out from Trafalgar Group found that Darlene Graham is leading her opponent,

00:40:42.740 Annie Andrews, by just one point. So certainly within the margin of error, margin of error is

00:40:48.240 three points. There's 8% undecided, so it's anybody's race, but it's statistically a tie

00:40:53.800 right now. Now, you might say, like I want to say, well, that's just one polling firm. Maybe

00:40:58.180 Trafalgar just got the numbers wrong. There's another poll, Insider Advantage poll was released

00:41:02.080 earlier this month, had Darlene Graham leading the race by just two points. Now, there was another 0.97

00:41:09.440 survey in mid-August, Impact Research, which was sponsored by the Democrat campaign, so take it

00:41:14.580 with a grain of salt. That showed the candidates were tied. But okay, you have one candidate survey,

00:41:19.700 but then two non-candidate surveys coming out. Trafalgar is a fairly conservative-leaning

00:41:24.940 poll firm, all showing that it's a tie race. This should not be a tie race. This is South Carolina.

00:41:30.340 This is South Carolina. What are we doing? I am not a panic-an. All these people,

00:41:36.220 they they worry themselves i'm speaking of the catholic faith i'm with padre pio pray hope and

00:41:41.800 don't worry but i like to be realistic too things are looking very very tough all these people now

00:41:50.560 they're turning on trump i'm not turning on trump trump is the best president of my lifetime i love

00:41:53.880 trump i think he's great i think there's i think the gop has done a lot of great stuff really

00:41:58.700 mostly because of trump in the administration we've gotten a lot of wins even in the last

00:42:02.860 year and a half. But that is not how the voters are perceiving it at this juncture.

00:42:11.740 Voting is happening. Early voting in California begins in seven days.

00:42:17.880 Mail-in voting has already begun. And right now, the Democrats are winning.

00:42:24.000 And the Democrats are winning because they are making this race a referendum on the Iran war,

00:42:29.360 which is unpopular. Iran war is polling at about 32%. And President Trump, even when he launched

00:42:34.720 the most recent Iran war, he didn't launch it in the way that Bush launched Iraq, saying this is

00:42:39.180 so important and great and we're going to remake the whole world and the Middle East is going to

00:42:44.020 be like a Madisonian democracy. He didn't do that. Trump was way more realistic. He said, look, we

00:42:48.420 got to take a little detour because we have this existential threat from Iran getting a nuclear 0.97

00:42:51.860 weapon. You can disagree on the prudence of how to read the intelligence and the most practical 0.59

00:42:57.300 course to remedy the situation. You can do that all you want. But I'm just pointing out,

00:43:02.360 President Trump launched the war on the grounds of prudence and practicality too.

00:43:06.980 It was not some wild ideological crusade. And the trouble is, having launched that war,

00:43:14.000 the Democrats are now seizing on it as an opportunity to channel all of the voter

00:43:19.020 frustrations for the midterm elections. They're blaming the economy on the Iran war with a little

00:43:24.000 bit of justification, but not a ton. They're blaming the neglect of domestic issues that

00:43:29.460 Democrats would only make worse, but they're blaming that on the Iran war. They're on and on

00:43:33.960 and on. They're just focusing it on the Iran war. There's a temptation among Republicans to then

00:43:38.840 answer those attacks and say, no, the Iran war actually was good, or the Iran war was defensible,

00:43:44.880 or the Iran war isn't chiefly responsible for inflation. Because yes, while diesel is over

00:43:50.120 $6 a gallon right now. Actually, the price of Brent crude has been relatively low for the last

00:43:54.320 five months. And actually, the cause of inflation was all of the inflation under the Biden era,

00:43:59.640 which came down a lot, but it doesn't actually reduce the cost of goods in most cases,

00:44:03.860 except for maybe in the case of eggs. And actually, it's monetary policy that is

00:44:07.080 chiefly responsible for inflation because of the interest rates of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

00:44:10.400 blah, blah. Quote our friend, our old dead friend, Ronald Reagan, who is venerated as a saint by

00:44:17.540 many conservatives. When you're explaining you're losing, you can't do that.

00:44:25.580 The Iran war could be the most just, brilliant war ever. It actually could turn out well in the 0.88

00:44:33.800 long run. It's not going to turn out well in the short run. But in the long run, it actually could

00:44:36.280 turn out well. And if it does turn out well, it'd be the greatest stroke of grand strategic genius

00:44:39.520 by a president in the last 30 years. But in the short run, none of that matters.

00:44:44.740 There is no way for the Republicans to talk about the Iran war without giving something to the

00:44:49.920 Democrats. Some people don't understand a lot in politics, but it's like the difference between

00:44:55.980 a reporter and an editor at a newspaper. The reporter talks about the facts of the story.

00:45:01.720 The editor decides what stories to talk about. And there are certain stories that are just bad

00:45:07.420 for you, even if in an objective sense, they're justifiable. Even if you can explain to everybody,

00:45:13.220 doesn't matter. So that's the Iran war for the Republicans right now. What could the Republicans

00:45:17.740 focus on? They could focus on immigration. They could focus on the fact that Democrats

00:45:22.100 have flooded the country and promised to continue to flood the country with millions and millions

00:45:25.640 of illegals. And President Trump has gotten rid of two and a half million illegals and almost 0.65

00:45:30.660 three million of the foreign born percentage of the population in just a year and a half. That's

00:45:34.360 very impressive. It's very popular. That's the sort of issue that could win the popular vote in

00:45:38.500 2024. We could talk about violence. We could talk about the fact that the left not only has

00:45:45.980 tried to murder the president of the United States multiple times, not only succeeded at

00:45:50.460 murdering our most prominent conservative activist, but continues to justify the murder

00:45:56.480 of conservatives. That the leading Democrat thought leader, Hassan Piker, openly calls for

00:46:01.220 the murder of senators, wants to kill ordinary Republicans for being to the right of Hillary

00:46:06.200 Clinton. We could talk about further predations that they want to go in and spy on your churches 0.82

00:46:11.580 and treat parents and churchgoers and Christians as domestic violent extremists, as we saw under

00:46:18.040 Joe Biden. We could talk about how they want to send CPS to your house to take your kids away if

00:46:22.600 you don't want to trans your kids. Let's talk about transing your kids. That's a major social issue. 1.00

00:46:27.100 Let's talk about the LGBT indoctrination in kindergarten. Let's talk about all of those issues 0.54

00:46:31.400 that we win on those are the 80 20 issues those are the 90 10 issues and in as much as we have

00:46:39.160 to address the iran war we just point out this is this the iran war was a a matter of prudence

00:46:46.660 and practicality on which reasonable minds might disagree and the democrats are are harping on it

00:46:53.020 out of pure convenience out of pure cynicism and they're blaming a bunch of unrelated things

00:46:58.780 on the Iran war. If you look at two issues, immigration and the Iran war, and you say,

00:47:06.700 hey, what is raising the cost of your goods? What is raising the cost of your rents? What is raising

00:47:11.020 the cost of your healthcare? What is raising the cost of your housing? It is 999 times out of a

00:47:17.240 thousand immigration, the kind of mass migration that the Democrats want to make worse. It is not

00:47:22.320 the Iran war. Whatever bad things have come about as a consequence of the Iran war, it ain't that.

00:47:28.780 it's migration.

00:47:30.440 Focus on those kinds of issues.

00:47:31.960 One little,

00:47:32.780 I don't want to leave you

00:47:33.600 too doomer, 1.00

00:47:35.500 too black-pilled

00:47:36.400 on the midterm.

00:47:37.260 So,

00:47:37.860 the one silver lining

00:47:39.120 we might have here

00:47:39.880 is

00:47:41.460 that Hasan Piker,

00:47:43.060 the leading

00:47:43.480 left-wing thought leader,

00:47:44.560 such as it is,

00:47:45.700 who campaigns

00:47:46.360 with all the big Democrat candidates,

00:47:47.880 who is embraced

00:47:48.380 by all the big Democrat candidates,

00:47:49.980 who's platformed

00:47:50.840 by the New York Times

00:47:51.520 multiple times approvingly,

00:47:53.400 that guy,

00:47:54.720 this guy who says

00:47:55.560 he fantasizes

00:47:56.260 about murdering Charlie Kirk

00:47:57.360 and then

00:47:58.000 two days after Charlie Kirk is murdered, the New York Times turns to him for his wisdom,

00:48:02.100 platformed by all the elite left-wing institutions. Hassan Piker has an argument for the Democrats

00:48:07.980 in 2026, and that is you need to talk more about how much you want to trans the kids.

00:48:15.980 We should not cede the framing to the right just because it has been deployed oftentimes by the

00:48:21.300 right. We are the normal ones. It is less normal to constantly freak out about transgender people

00:48:28.360 than it is to just let trans people live. Okay. Most people, most people, partially because of 0.94

00:48:36.220 law and order SVU, let's do a call back to that. Okay. Actually don't care about trans people

00:48:41.820 existing in society. Okay. But on the internet, that's the only thing that the Republicans 1.00

00:48:46.660 dial in on and they make it seem like being transgender is abnormal you know what's abnormal 0.97

00:48:51.700 constantly worrying about children's genitals that is the most weirdo freak of all time okay 0.95

00:48:58.400 okay so right there he snuck that little claim he goes being transgender is totally normal 0.91

00:49:03.720 okay now hold on whatever you want to say about the trans issue it isn't normal right you can say 0.52

00:49:10.320 it's acceptable it should be tolerated you even say it's good to say it's normal shows you how to

00:49:15.740 how out of touch this guy is and how out of touch his whole party is. But then listen to his

00:49:19.600 argument. His argument is that it is not the left that has foisted transgenderism on our kids

00:49:26.740 that is weird. It is the conservatives who object to it. And they do this all the freaking time.

00:49:35.900 But what he is saying as a practical matter is trans people should just be allowed to live. 0.98

00:49:40.520 Well, no one's calling them murderable. We're just saying that the fellas should get out of

00:49:44.480 the women's bathroom and get out of the women's sports and stop twerking in front of our five-year-olds 1.00

00:49:50.060 at the public library. I think that's a pretty modest ask, wouldn't you say? And the conclusion 0.99

00:49:55.700 of this is that some big, mentally ill pervert goes into a little girl's changing room at the 1.00

00:50:04.540 public pool. He says, hey, kids, isn't it great being a lady? Okay, look at my nude, hairy body. 0.99

00:50:11.740 That's what the guy does. 0.97

00:50:13.880 And then you, the parents say, hey, man, get out of there.

00:50:19.260 Don't do that.

00:50:21.080 And Hassan Piker comes rushing and he says, hey, hey, hey, 0.99

00:50:23.800 leave the trans hairy men stripping in front of your daughter. 1.00

00:50:28.160 Leave him alone. 1.00

00:50:28.880 Why are you such a weirdo? 0.81

00:50:31.160 Why are you so obsessed with this issue? 0.71

00:50:33.640 See, I'm not obsessed with this issue.

00:50:35.180 I don't want to talk about this issue either.

00:50:36.720 but we had for approximately all of history everywhere we had a society that didn't tolerate

00:50:44.740 this and then about 10 years ago you changed it and you said we have to tolerate this and then

00:50:51.380 you shoved it in our faces all the time in the locker rooms in the kindergarten classrooms in

00:50:56.760 everywhere and now you're complaining that we're talking about it i'll tell you what i'll make you

00:51:00.620 deal. Let's go back to how things always were everywhere for all of time, and we'll stop talking

00:51:07.000 about that weird thing you did. But they won't take that deal. Hassan Piker says, we got to lean

00:51:12.100 into it, we Democrats. We got to make this election about transing the kids. Great. Please, Hassan,

00:51:21.840 lead your people. You are the most prominent left-wing thought leader, such as it is.

00:51:28.260 Please lead your people.

00:51:29.460 Democrats, listen to your leader. 0.74

00:51:31.460 Make this election about transing the kids. 1.00

00:51:34.200 And we'll win South Carolina. 0.71

00:51:35.640 And we'll win Michigan.

00:51:36.480 And we'll do a lot better than people are predicting right now.

00:51:38.640 Okay.

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00:51:57.680 Every significant movement in history has started with protesting. 0.98

00:52:01.480 You're a traitor! Uncle Tom! 1.00

00:52:02.980 This is our generation's civil rights!

00:52:04.680 I have no idea what the protest is about.

00:52:06.680 Bingo!

00:52:07.180 Given the current climate,

00:52:08.680 we should have figured as polarizing as Clay Saunders

00:52:11.480 could even be allowed on Kansas.

00:52:12.680 Ah, can you hear me okay?

00:52:13.680 Saunders is a close personal friend of Chancellor Freeman.

00:52:16.180 This is a decision I cannot find. 1.00

00:52:17.980 Islam will conquer the West. 1.00

00:52:20.680 As-salamu alaykum. 1.00

00:52:24.180 Are we paying attention? 0.99

00:52:25.680 They've taken over the building, they're downstairs and they've blocked the doors.

00:52:30.680 I seek forgiveness from Allah the Almighty.

00:52:34.680 We cannot run and hide.

00:52:36.680 Muhammad is the messenger of God.

00:52:39.680 There is no God but Allah.

00:52:42.680 What do you say? 1.00

00:52:44.680 We turn those SOBs into a fine red mist. 0.99

00:52:48.680 As we move, one man will cover while the other guys go. 1.00

00:52:52.680 They call that leap project.

00:52:53.680 You need a course in safe weapons handling.

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